Migration/Immigration

The Mullah Krekar Show

Is this the man behind the Oslo terrorist bombing?

BY J.M. BERGER | JULY 22, 2011

A Continent, Sinking

Europe's financial crisis is a Titanic moment, threatening to bring down not only the EU's major economies, but its political raison d'être. Is it too late to save the ship?

BY STEVEN ERLANGER | JULY 20, 2011

Trouble Down South

For Saudi Arabia, Yemen's implosion is a nightmare.

BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JULY 5, 2011

The World's Most Dangerous Borders

Thirteen places you don't want to be stuck at.

BY PHILIP WALKER | JUNE 24, 2011

Fear Dimitra

How one 62-year-old grandmother explains the Greek crisis.

BY JOANNA KAKISSIS | JUNE 23, 2011

Postcards from Hell, 2011

Images from the world's most failed states.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 20, 2011

A Bond for the Homeland

Migrants send billions of dollars home each year; they also save a lot, too. Instead of stuffing cash under the mattress, the developing world's diaspora could do a lot more good if they invested in their homeland. 

BY NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA, DILIP RATHA | MAY 24, 2011

How Not to Declare a War

The Obama administration's legal rationale for bombing Libya suggests that while George W. Bush may be gone, the imperial presidency isn't.

BY SCOTT HORTON | APRIL 11, 2011

Arrival Cities

A look at nine places defining life on the margins for the new century, from Chongqing to California.

BY DOUG SAUNDERS | MARCH 23, 2011

West Africa Lurches Toward War

As the world watches the tsunami in Japan and the uprising in Libya, another part of the world is on the brink of disaster. Is anyone paying attention?

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 11, 2011

Bedlam at the Border

Exclusive photos of the human wave leaving Libya.

BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | MARCH 2, 2011

Invasion of the Alien Cattle

Why does the United States allow more foreign cattle to immigrate than it does people?

BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Not Your Father's Cuba

What Marco Rubio and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen don't get about the new generation of Cuban-Americans.

BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Romas: Europe's Wanderers

Kicked out of France and unwanted in the countries to which they are forced to return, the Roma are a part of a new Europe that everyone would rather ignore.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Taxing American Competitiveness

Why is Congress slapping fees on the most productive sectors of the U.S. economy?

BY JACOB F. KIRKEGAARD, ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN | SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Megacities

FP's guide to the coming urban age.

BY RICHARD DOBBS | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Urban Legends

Why suburbs, not cities, are the answer.

BY JOEL KOTKIN | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Chicago on the Yangtze

Welcome to Chongqing, the biggest city you've never heard of.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Beyond City Limits

The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.

BY PARAG KHANNA | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Blood on the Tracks

Photos from the dangerous journey to El Norte.

PHOTOS BY FELIPE JÁCOME | JULY 23, 2010

The World's Worst Theme Parks

Where not to take the kids on your summer vacation.

BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JULY 4, 2010

Le Scandal

The French soccer team's disaster in South Africa has exposed the superficiality of European racial integration -- and now only Germany can save France from tearing itself apart.

BY JOHN HOBERMAN | JULY 1, 2010

Stealing Colombia's Criminals

How extradition is ruining Latin America's courts, robbing victims of justice, and undermining the drug war.

BY MICHAEL REED-HURTADO | JUNE 18, 2010

The World’s Worst Immigration Laws

Think Arizona's new immigration law is harsh? The Grand Canyon state has nothing on these guys.

BY PETER WILLIAMS | APRIL 29, 2010

The FP Quiz

Are you a globalization junkie? Then test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works.  

MAY/JUNE 2010

Interview: António Guterres

From Darfur to Afghanistan, the U.N.’s point man on refugees says, the world’s conflicts are getting “more worrisome and more difficult to solve.”

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 23, 2010

Only Haitians Can Save Haiti

The world has tried before to fix this troubled state -- and failed each time. Now will be no different, unless Haitians take the lead.

BY HOWARD W. FRENCH | FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Solomon's Baby in the Middle East

A trip to a village literally cut in two by war.

BY ANDREW J. TABLER | FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Does Israel Have an Immigrant Problem?

Thousands are flocking to the Jewish state for work. But increasingly, they are becoming a political football.

BY EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN | JANUARY 25, 2010

The Least Among Us

The recession may be ending for Wall Street, but for the millions of migrants who make the U.S. economy run, the crisis is just beginning.

BY MANUEL OROZCO | SEPTEMBER 15, 2009